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How can we protect wild animals when the world's forest cover continues to shrink? This is just one of the many issues under discussion at the Cop16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia. In West Africa, certain emblematic species such as the elephant are at risk of extinction. The head of…

The world is gathering in Colombia for the UN biodiversity conference known as Cop16, a biannual pulse-taking of the living planet where actions to protect the natural world are agreed. At its last meeting in 2022, an ambitious roadmap for nature protection was put in place. As part of that…

COP16 in Cali addresses global biodiversity decline, emphasizing Indigenous roles and urgent action for conservation.

Delegates from 196 countries are discussing progress in preserving biodiversity. So what are the sticking points?

With a million species on the brink of extinction and 70 percent of global ecosystems degraded, the Cop16 biodiversity summit opens in Colombia on Monday as the window to prevent devastating losses is closing.

As the world grapples with plummeting levels of biodiversity, Colombia is hosting two weeks of meetings for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged "significant investment" in a fund created to safeguard Earth's biodiversity as he addressed delegates to the world's biggest nature protection conference in Cali, Colombia.

As officials from around 200 countries prepare to meet in Colombia for the Cop16 biodiversity summit starting Monday, world-respected British zoologist Jane Goodall said there was little time left to reverse the downward slide. She wants the United Nations meeting to lead to action rather than "words and false promises".

Houston murder suspect found dead in suspected suicide; family seeks to repatriate victim's body to Colombia.

Many initiatives by ethnic communities in impoverished Choco in northwestern Colombia aim to fight back against the environmental devastation inflicted upon the Atrato, a river that weaves around some 750 kilometers (470 miles) through northern Colombian jungles

Thousands of delegates from around the world are descending on Colombia for a summit on halting humankind's rapacious destruction of nature, with host city Cali on high alert after threats from guerrilla groups.